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11     (to him) Come out into the fields, my love,
        and there spend the night in the villages.
12     Let’s rise with the morning and go to the vineyards
        to see if the vines have budded,
    If their blossoms have opened,
        and if the pomegranates are in bloom.
        There I will give you my love.
13     The mandrakes send out their seductive fragrance,
        and the finest fruits wait at our doors—
    New pleasures as well as old—
        I have stored them up for you, my lover.

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11 Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside,
    let us spend the night in the villages.[a]
12 Let us go early to the vineyards(A)
    to see if the vines have budded,(B)
if their blossoms(C) have opened,
    and if the pomegranates(D) are in bloom(E)
    there I will give you my love.
13 The mandrakes(F) send out their fragrance,
    and at our door is every delicacy,
both new and old,
    that I have stored up for you, my beloved.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 7:11 Or the henna bushes